Commercial Scene : Lancaster Retail Center Is Launched by Selleck

Actor Tom Selleck put on his other hat, as chairman of Selleck Properties, at a ground breaking for a $9-million retail complex in Lancaster.

Known as Somerset Village, the 75,279-square-foot project is being developed on the northeast corner of L Avenue and 20th Street by the 7-year-old Woodland Hills-based firm, headed by Selleck’s brother, Robert D. Selleck II, as president and owned by Selleck’s father, Robert D., who is a principal.

The ground breaking also drew Lancaster business and civic leaders, led by Mayor Lynn Harrison, who hailed the project’s promise of offering a “wide assortment of goods and services.”

Robert D. Selleck II noted that he had assembled some of the same development team members who contributed to the firm’s Gateway Center in Palmdale.

Steve Olshan, project architect with LeRoy Miller & Associates of Santa Monica, said that the Lancaster development will consist of six buildings ranging in size from 3,000 square feet to a 36,300-square-foot Hughes Market, the second Hughes Market in the Antelope Valley.

“We anticipate a series of articulated storefronts and numerous corner opportunities,” he added. A 9,100-square-foot pad, directly on the corner, will complete the new center.

D&D; Commercial Construction of Claremont is project general contractor; Union Bank is providing construction financing, and InCal Leasing of Pasadena is handling leasing.